Former interim welterweight champion Colby Covington continues to be stewing over his TKO loss to Joaquin Buckley weeks after the Dec. 14 occasion.
Covington stepped in to face Joaquin Buckley within the UFC on ESPN 63 important occasion when the combat promotion opted to put Buckley’ authentic opponent, Ian Machado Garry, in opposition to Shavkat Rakhmonov as a substitute. It had been a 12 months since Covington had fought, dropping to Leon Edwards at UFC 296 in December 2023.
The combat did not go Covington’s means. Buckley fended off takedown makes an attempt and battered Covington with punches. The combat was stopped late within the third spherical resulting from a nasty laceration above Covington’s proper eye. “Chaos” believes the combat was stopped early and that he would have completed Buckley had the combat gone on.
“The combat, you understand, we had been simply getting warmed up.” Colby Covington stated on his YouTube channel. “Everybody is aware of I’m a fourth and fifth-round fighter, I’m simply getting began moving into these championship rounds. I might’ve completed him in that fourth and fifth spherical, he was respiratory heavy. He didn’t have far more to supply, he wasn’t going to have a lot quantity in these final rounds.”
“It was an in depth aggressive combat, he didn’t outclass me, he didn’t drop me, he didn’t actually harm me,” Covington continued. “There was somewhat reduce that occurred, and I rewatched it again. It was like minute two, and it was like a headbutt proper off his hip or one thing. However, it wasn’t a punch… It’s unlucky that DEI physician stopped the combat early. I assumed it was simply getting began, and there was much more that wanted to be settled in there.”
